He opted for a name change to simply... 'Demon'. In Ableton this is crazy easy. Some of these include; Biome, NDread, DColt, Catacoombes and Versa. For example, you could take a drum loop, send a copy of it through a Return track in Ableton Live loaded with a compressor, and then compress the living heck out of the copy. He's always seeking that new sound with a new inspiration behind it. Load in a drum loop of your choice – anything will work but softer acoustic drums can demo the process best. That was the beginning of R.Demon. Parallel processing is different from series processing. I find this Dry/Wet knob to be too subtle for my use so I’ve built a Rack that lets use blend two Chains of parallel compression … By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. One thing that I'm trying to do more of is parallel compression, and the way I originally figured was to create a send/return track with a low-threshold compressor and then simply send varying amounts from tracks. Press play and slowly bring the volume of the ‘Compression’ chain up until the transients begin to be enhanced. To do that, you'll want to set up a new parallel send for each element that you want to alter. As the dubstep sound changed and progressed, Raff wanted to slow things down and try something new. Once you have your parallel compression drum track set up, then pull that fader all the way down to where you can’t hear it. This would give him a solid platform to release his own material as well as other artists producing a similar style of dubstep. Put it wherever the sound needs it. Countless number 1 singles in the 1Xtra chart and numerous amount of appearances on huge labels such as Slimzos, Dump valve, Zodiac, Square recordings, Terrorhythm along with a few releases they funded themselves. Copyright ©2020 Education & Bass | All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Web design & build by DeType. He recently hooked back up with long-time friend Nomine (Outrage) and they have worked on many projects together such as releases, tracks, music education events and most notably the education and bass online music production school. In this short tutorial Nurve explains and shows you about parallel compression by using a drum and bass loop from a working progress. It didn’t take long for Raff to have his first vinyl release on Tectonic, followed by a few more. This tutorial shows a different way of doing this, That was a fantastic video, watched it all. Many compressors (such as a the stock comps for Logic and Ableton) have dry/wet or 'mix' knobs. A new chapter was about to begin that some may class as 'Dubstep' music. It took most of the artists including Raff, on numerous American tours and gigs all over Europe. However one thing I'm thinking is, let's say you are sending a snare & a lead to a return track with a compressor with 100ms attack (to preserve transients). In 2014 Raff started to make a lot of 125-130 techy bass music and started to feed it to Pinch & Mumdance. Either in your drum rack, add its own compressor send/return within the drum rack group which can be shared and triggered from everything, or group a few sub channels together (multiple snares for instance) and drop a compressor with wet/dry set to 50 (or to taste). Raff describes this side of his music as "Dark techy and futuristic – different to others." Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Im sorry, but what is parallel compression and why use it over other types of compression... Also what is compression, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Press J to jump to the feed. However, if you have both the snare & the lead both sending, the lead will also trigger the compressor. He taught himself how to mix very quickly and by the age of 16 he was already DJing at events around his home town of Bedford under the name Raffa-D. His biggest inspirations back then as a DJ were Andy C & Mampi Swift who were known for their style of double drop mixing. Raff got his first set of decks way back in 1996 at the age of 14. Using the Dry/Wet knob. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. This is where he really learnt his trade as a DJ and began to take it to the next level. How To Process The Amen Break & 808 Bass - Part 3.